Low Countries Front (France)

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Was the Low Countries front during the Franco-Swedish period of the Thirty Years' War.

Chronology

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October 1637: Breda, a city in the southern Netherlands, surrendered to Prince Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau, the Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, after a six-month siege in 1637. This victory was a significant achievement for the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands in their ongoing struggle against the Spanish Habsburgs during the Eighty Years' War.

January 1636: Spanish occupation of Philippsbourg, Speyer, Landau and Treviri.

May 1635: Battle of Les Avins.

August 1636: In July 1647, Archduke Leopold, brother of the Emperor and Governor General of the Spanish Netherlands, recaptured Landrecies from the Kingdom of France. The stronghold had been conquered by the French eleven years earlier.

January 1637: Lens is annexed by the Kingdom of France.

June 1639: In 1639, during the Franco-Spanish War, the French army led by Marshal Chatillon successfully captured the town of Hesdin in northern France after a failed attempt at Saint-Omer.

August 1640: Arras conquered by france.

October 1641: During the spring of 1641 and until September 1641, other Spanish strongholds, such as Aire-sur-la-Lys, Lens, Bapaume and La Bassée, fell to the French military occupation led by King Louis XIII and his chief minister Cardinal Richelieu.

August 1643: The siege of Thionville in 1643 was led by French military leader Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, against the Spanish-held city.

October 1646: Siege of Dunkirk.

August 1648: Archduke Leopold William of Habsburg captured Lens.